Energy Policy

Why our newspaper group is doing this series on climate change

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Climate change is the biggest, most significant challenge of the 21st century. That is why the newspapers of the East Oregonian Publishing Co. began this occasional series in March. This series is an extraordinary commitment for a newspaper group of our size. From our varied geographical vantage points, our reporters and editors will describe what scientists, naturalists and ordinary citizens are observing and predicting.

(Pulitzer Prize committee, take note! -EB)

Peak oil – Sept 9

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(Updated)
Rift widens between producers, consumers

Armageddon on the couch – PeakOilBlues

Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle

Byron King on the Gulf of Mexico discovery
Oil supply and demand recent trends
Cornucopians – a guide for the perplexed

About the Oil Depletion Protocol

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The next few years may offer humankind its last, best opportunity to avert resource wars, terrorism, and economic collapse as it enters the second half of the Age of Oil. If we grasp that opportunity and succeed, we could set a precedent for cooperative, peaceful approaches to all of the resource problems we are likely to encounter during the coming century. The choice we face is between competition and conflict on one hand, and voluntary moderation and mutual assistance on the other. The first steps toward the latter can be readily taken by endorsing and adopting this simple agreement.